With the body as the medium, dancers are visual artists embodied. Through a non-verbal language, there must be a willingness to share the whole self. I create dance performances that are in collaboration with live music and film and am drawn to work with other artists who are messy, real, believe in ghosts and are amazed by the infinite nature of the universe.

My performance work has been described as cinematic, surreal and minimal. I am interested in the upheaval of memory and perception. I revel in the absurdity of beauty and the haunting power of disorientation. To fragment and surrender, this is at the core of my aesthetic.

"For us the first time we saw PIMA Group was like seeing a Rothko for the first time or hearing Feldman for the first time. It changes you forever and from that moment on you have a different expectations. PIMA Group so clearly defies categorization – it’s not dance, its not theater, its not music, and yet its all of these things. Every piece they make is completely unique, so peculiar to the moment and space when it’s performed." - Dustin Hurt, Bowerbird

"Melisa Putz demonstrated through her new work [Bird with the Broken Wings] that she is one of the most lyrically expressive dancers on the Philadelphia scene today." Jonathan Stein, thINKing DANCE

"While too many dance and music groups seem to excel at one discipline over the other, PIMA brings an unusual focus to not just both but to their union, to using music to teach us something about movement and to using movement to teach us something about music." - Philadelphia Sound Forum